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The Verger – General Understanding Quiz

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Approximate Reading Times

Quick Read: under 5 minutes
Short Story: 5 to 30 minutes
Novelette: 30 to 90 minutes
Novella: 1.5 to 2.5 hours

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A Useless Man
Short Story by Sait Faik Abasıyanık. A recluse hasn’t washed himself or left his Istanbul neighborhood of four streets in seven years. He follows the same routine and meets the same people every day. His ordered life is shattered when, for no apparent reason, he ventures further afield.
The Hack Driver
Short Story by Sinclair Lewis. A young lawyer is sent to a small town to serve a summons on a man needed for an important case. Although unsuccessful, he thoroughly enjoys his time with a helpful hack driver who drives him around all day, always one step behind his quarry.
Residents and Transients
Short Story by Bobbie Ann Mason. Having returned to temporarily live on her parent’s Kentucky farm, a woman is at a crossroads. Her salesman husband has a new post and is away looking at houses in a nearby city, and she has been having an affair with a local man.
Do What You Can
Grade 3-4 Story by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. A raindrop sees a farmer in distress. His carefully tended crop of corn is beginning to wither and droop and, although the raindrop knows it cannot save the crop alone, it decides to bring the farmer a moment of happiness.
María Concepción
Novelette by Katherine Porter. The life of a Mexican peasant is shattered when her husband has an affair with a fifteen-year-old neighbour and runs away with her to war. When the two return, he expects their marriage to continue as before. She makes sure of this, brutally murdering the girl.

On the Way to Solomon’s Pools
Short Story by Samira Azzam. Set in 1948, a Palestinian schoolteacher/National Guardsman flees an Israeli attack. As he carries his young son, the boy is fatally shot. He steps off the road, buries the child in private, and loses his soul to hatred… not even offering a prayer.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A school “friend” invites a young man to holiday at his luxurious family home deep in the Montana Mountains. The narcissistic family’s wealth comes from a secret diamond mine, which is so rich that strangers who enter their hidden valley can never leave.
Wakefield
Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A narrator provides a possible backstory for a newspaper account of a man who ‘disappeared’ after telling his wife he was going on a week’s holiday, stalked her for twenty years, and then returned home as if nothing had happened.
A Day’s Wait
Quick Read by Ernest Hemingway. A doctor attributes a boy’s high temperature to influenza and prescribes medicine. Over the course of the day, the boy remains “detached” and begins to act strangely. He is sure the doctor and his father are hiding something more serious from him.
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street
Novelette by Herman Melville. A lawyer shows remarkable tolerance and compassion towards a disturbed scrivener (scribe). The man suffers from depression. Feeling alone in the world and lacking a meaning or purpose in life, his coping mechanisms are self-isolation, lack of communication and passive resistance to his duties at work.